Catriona M.M. MacDonald

Author

Catriona M.M. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, educated at the universities of St Andrews, Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt, and is currently Reader in Late Modern Scottish History at the University of Glasgow. She is a former editor of the Scottish Historical Review, past president of the Scottish History Society and former Trustee of National Museums Scotland. Her book Whaur Extremes Meet was Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year, 2010, and her book The Caledoniad was winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize for the best book published on Scottish history in 2023 and 2024.

Catriona M.M. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, educated at the universities of St Andrews, Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt, and is currently Reader in Late Modern Scottish History at the University of Glasgow. She is a former editor of the Scottish Historical Review, past president of the Scottish History Society and former Trustee of National Museums Scotland. Her book Whaur Extremes Meet was Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year, 2010, and her book The Caledoniad was winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize for the best book published on Scottish history in 2023 and 2024.

Books

  • For the Good of the People
    Hardback | Pub: 05 Nov 2026
    £100.00

    In 1901 Andrew Carnegie founded an educational trust in Scotland to make its universities more available to the country’s ‘deserving and qualified youth’, to improve their status, and to extend research. The result was the Carnegie Trust for...

  • The Caledoniad
    Paperback | Pub: 18 Jun 2026
    £30.00

    Winner of the 2025 Frank Watson Book Prize Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the historical narrative the only legitimate medium...

  • Scotland and the Great War
    Paperback | Pub: 18 Aug 2014
    £20.00

    There has been very little previous attention paid to Scottish civilians during the Great War, but, as is revealed here, Scotland had its own unique experience. Of multi-disciplinary interest for academics, and of broad general interest too, this is...